Self-portrait in the Budapest ghetto.  1944

Ilka Gedő, Self-portrait in the ghetto, pencil on paper, 1944. [br]Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem. The everyday line-ups for deportations and the regular raids and massacres terrified the artist as it is evident in her 1944 Self-portrait (Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem). During this time Gedő was only twenty-three but here she appears as an old woman; her face look...